Author: John Lawless

The Rambling Rooks, the new special project band featuring Ronnie Bowman, Don Rigsby and Kenny Smith, have a free download offer for bluegrass lovers. It's a track from their upcoming album, a Ronnie Bowman and Shawn Camp song called Looking For

Rhonda Vincent is using the occasion of this week's SPBGMA convention in Nashville to release a new single from her next album. The song is a Larry Cordle/Lionel Delmore song, I'd Rather Hear I Don't Love You (Than Nothing At All),

Bluegrass Today will have a presence at this year's annual convention of the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America. There will be live concerts, showcase stages, a banjo workshop, a band competition, and the annual SPBGMA awards presentations over

We've had Grasstowne and Monroeville, and now we have another bluegrass destination to add to our itinerary... Hammertowne. This new group of five veteran Kentucky pickers and singers has completed their first album, and signed this week with Mountain Fever Records,

Here's an interesting twist on the ongoing battle between bluegrass traditionalists and big-tenters. At this past weekend's Northern California Bluegrass Awards in Redwood City (just south of San Francisco), there was a tie in the balloting for Best Bluegrass Band. The vote was

NewTown has announced that Clint Hurd has joined the band on mandolin, taking the spot vacated by James Kee when he departed at the end of 2012. Clint has done a pair of shows with the band, and will be

Nora Jane Struthers & the Party Line have released a live video, shot last week in Nashville. It was actually their first live show as a band, after spending time in the studio last year recording their first album together,

The Boston area’s prime bluegrass event, The Joe Val Bluegrass Festival, is coming up in a few weeks and a lot of folks in the northeast are making preparations to attend. We'll have a correspondent/photographer there for the first time

Marty Lanham has been a figure in the Nashville music scene for more than 40 years. Since relocating there from his native California in 1972, he has worked in the repair department of the legendary Gruhn Guitars on Broadway, helped

Poor Mountain Records has announced the signing of West Virginia's Idletymes. The band consists of Chris Long on guitar, Craig Jarvis on bass, Glenn Jarvis on fiddle, and Ronnie Seebaugh on banjo. They will start work shortly on a new project for Poor